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W. H. BUNNER. RAILWAY TABIFFBUDK.

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RAILWAY TARlFF-BOOK.

SPEGXEEGATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 699,479, dated May 6, 1902. Application filed September 4, 1901. Serial No. 74,302. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. BONNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newton, in the county of Harvey, State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Tariff-Books,of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention relates to railway tariff-books,

particularly, in the forni given to the leaves of the book, as hereinafter particularly pointed out in the claims, by which the same book is adapted for use on different routes having different number of stations without increasing the number of leaves.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved book open at the first page. Fig. 2 is a similar View of the book open at about `the middle. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the book open at the last page, and Fig. 4 is a plan view of an intermediate leaf of the book.

Each of the leaves of the book is so cut as to have a main portion B and an index-fly C. The edges of the main portions B of all of the leaves are at the same distance from the back edge and parallel therewith. The index-dies of the several leaves differ from each other only in vertical extent and in vertical position. The index-fly of the iirst leaf extends from the top of the page downward a distance, depending on the vertical length of the leaves and the number of stations on the route, and in any case should be of vertical length su fiicient to have written or printed thereon the name of the station which is the startingpoint of the route, as well as the necessary headings for the different columns hereinafter described on the main portion of the leaf. The index-ily of the second leaf is so cut that its lower edge shall be a sufficient distance below the lower edge of the rst leaf to afford space for the name of the first station after leaving the starting-point of the route. The index-fly of the third leaf is so cut that its lower edge isa sufficient distance below the lower edge of the secondleaf to afford space for the name of the second station, and so on,y

the index-fly of each leaf being so cut that its lower edge shall be a sufficient distance below the lower edge of the preceding page to afford space for a succeeding station.

The index-dies instead of extending from the upper edge of the book, as has been the case in railway tariff-books heretofore, are, with the exception of that of the first leaf or yfirst few leaves, so cut, as indicated in the tion the same book and the same leaves may be used for both routes. `In the book shown thirty leaves are used, each leaf having on its index-fly the name of a single station of route No. l, except the last leaf, which has on its fly-leaf the last two stations. Each of the last twenty-four of these leaves has also on therear face of its index-Hy the name of one of the stations of route No. 2, these station-names, however, being so placed, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3 and in dotted lines in Fig. 4, that in order to read them the book should be reversed. On the main portion of each leaf are arranged in columns figures indicating the distances and fares from the station the name of which appears on the i11- dex-ily of that leaf to each of the stations between it and the terminal station. Preferably the distances and fares are written or printed in different colors. In a column near the inner edge of the main portion of each leaf opposite the name of each station may IOO be placed the telegraph-call for that station. Other information with reference to the several stations which may be of use to trainmen may be arranged in the same way on the main portions of some or all of these leaves.

As by my invention the same leaves may be used for two distinct routes, it is evident that two or even more sets of leaves, each set bearing the names of the stations of two distinct routes and the necessary information with reference to distances and fares, may be included within one cover without making a book too bulky to be conveniently carried in the pocket, or where the number of stations between the starting-point and terminal is too great to be placed in a book of ordinary length a portion of them may be placed on one set of leaves and the remainder on a second set in the same book. For instance, a single book may be employed to show stations, distances, and fares and other information between terminals as far apart as Kam sas City and Dodge by arranging the first set of leaves to give stations, distances, fares, 85e., by the two routes between Kansas City and Emporia and by arranging the second set of leaves to give similar information respecting the two routes from Emporia to Dodge.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. A railway tariff-book with index-leaves having the index-ily of each succeeding leaf so cut that its lower edge shall be a suflicient distance below the index-fly of the preceding leaf to afford space for the name of a station,

and its upper edge shall be a sufficient disdistance below the index-fly of the preceding leaf to afford space for the name of a station, and its upper edge shall be a sufficient distance below the upper edge of the index-Hy of the preceding leaf to afford space on thel back of such preceding leaf for the name of a station, names of one route arranged in order on the front of the index-dies, and stationenames of a second route so arranged upon the backs of the successive indeX-ies that they will be readable only when the position of the book is reversed, and columns of figures opposite the station-names upon the main portions of the several leaves to indicate cash fares and distances from the station on the fly-index of that leaf to each of the succeeding stations; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. BONNER.

iV itnesses: 'Y

H. U. WALTERs, F. D. Srivnns. 

